Comments on: Yankees School of Witchcraft and Wizardryhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/14/yankees-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:54:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: sparky1002http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/14/yankees-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry/comment-page-2/#comment-495753
Sun, 19 May 2013 15:14:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-495753Doesn`t it stand up to reason that the Yankees might have more PED violations as the result of more players trying to remain at the top of their game because they are playing for a legendary franchise that has no real equal in the game? Isn`t it unjust to paint an entire team with the PED label out of nothing more than jealousy? Doesn`t it say something about the caliber of individual who would be that lame?
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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:18:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-495263This is definitely an interesting article but not necessarily a completely fair one. For every Small, Chacon, Wells, there has been a Pavano, Whitson, Rogers, Teixeira (to some extent) that dominated when they were on other teams, only to fail once they adorned the heaviest jersey in sports.
Is Wells currently in a contract year? If so, I think his numbers are more due to the Contract Year Theory then simply playing for the NYY. Its still early too, remember Colon fizzled out after the ASG in 2011 as well.
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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:14:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-495262Its definitely not a band box. RF is cheap for sure but look at how many HRs are hit by opposing players in CF/power alleys, its a rare occurrence. Dimensions aren’t everything since balls simply fly out of places like Fenway, Coors, Camden. Check their players home/away splits for evidence of this. Also remember that the NYY hit homers everywhere.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 19:23:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-494060Yankees also have the most PED violations in all of baseball- and there you have it, the truth about the yankees!
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Wed, 15 May 2013 14:12:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493783There you have it. Putting on the “Yankee Pinstripes” can inspire some and intimidate others regardless of their prior good or bad performances, and that goes for the teams they play against as well. To see a legendary franchise win or lose is what places so many more baseball fans in the seats regardless of where they play.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 13:54:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493759Exactly!
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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:32:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493643Sabermetrics could Never figure out why Stawberry played good ball for the Yankees inspite of heavy drug use. Clutch hits in season and the playoffs. I remember him hitting a monster homer run against Boston in Boston in a playoff game and shutting up all their fans in Boston for the rest of the game. Could have heard a pin drop after his blast.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:24:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493642It’s a deep drive off Torres, it could, it might , it is ! Holy freaking COW !! Bucky Dent has just give the Yankees the lead . Lighting in a bottle. And I’m drinking from that bottle.!!!
My bad, just had a flashback watching Ted Nugent play Stranglehold Live.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 01:44:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493603I embrace sabermetrics wholeheartedly–I am part of the analytics revolution– but I also believe that there are limits to what numbers can tell us. We need the narrative to round things out.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:03:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493513Yup, they have a shoddy farm system lol.

How about Phelps, Nuno, Warren, Preston Claiborne the last season & change?

Throw in the chance that Banuelos/Campos/Pineda work their way back from injuries and even get anywhere near their ceilings and you still haven’t even talked Williams, Austin, Heathcott, Almonte, Bichette Jr.,Hensley, Montgomery, Sanchez, Marshall, De Paula. Mitchell, Ramirez etc…

Whatever clown said they don’t have a decent farm system is quite the tool.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:48:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493510To me, the whole point of Sabermetrics is to figure that stuff out.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493493No, no, no, you misunderstand. He chopped the hole to get OUT of the ship.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:58:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493483I agree. Also, the Bible is too long. Could have been summarized with Leviticus 19:18 and saved us all a lot of time. Blah blah blah. I mean, what was the point of that flood, anyway? And why bother with a NEW Testament?

Joe, in the future, please limit all your posts to 12 or so paragraphs, which JFK69 thinks is a more reasonable number.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:53:51 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493479Yes, but did he mention that Chacon was terrible the next year? I stopped reading after the first 140 characters.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:07:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493447Bigmeechy you are a buffoon. Umps in the back pocket. C’mon man have something more. Stop with the conspiracy theories. The Yankees had dominant teams in the 90’s that’s why they won. I’m sure you watched every game to get that borderline ball\strike call stat. Give credit where it’s due the 90’s Yankees were great.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:05:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493444You’re insulting Randy G in NYC by calling him Randy Gay?

Are you 12?? I mean, honestly. Are you 12? Are you posting this from the computer lab at Kennedy Jr. High School? Because I can’t believe that even a person with the user name Turd would say something that juvenile without actually being a juvenile.

That wasn’t Cashman’s doing, that was Hank’s. Which is why Hank is now living upstate with the rabbits…

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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:48:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493432I’m really have no idea what way Cashman is going to go this off-season with Cano. If they sign him to a long term deal, let’s try to get it done including this year to buy another year of his prime. I’d rather they went long on the money and short on years than vice versa (which also means project $189 is done with considering all the holes that need to be filled next year).
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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:42:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493428

The pitchers mentioned were also terrible the following year with the very same Yankees, forgot to mention that in the article.

“The next year, Chacon returned to being generally struggling pitcher.”

“The next year, he pitched 11 games with an 8.46 ERA and did not pitch another big league game.”

Reading is difficult for you, isn’t it?

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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:23:14 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493416Well there is something in the water in the Bronx, but….
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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:19:23 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493413…and no chicken’s were harmed in the clubhouse.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:17:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493412I think I could hit 15-20 home runs in that band box.

The pitchers mentioned were also terrible the following year with the very same Yankees, forgot to mention that in the article.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:14:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493409You left out Eddie Lee Whitson.
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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:11:09 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493406“farm system is below average ”
I’m sure there are metrics somewhere that might support this statement….but how ’bout that farmhand that came up and pitched 5 scoreless yesterday?
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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:08:28 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493403It goes back much, much further. Run these names through your memory banks…Bucky (effin) Dent, or Brian Doyle….
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Tue, 14 May 2013 18:42:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493381Seriously anyone who thinks cano isn’t a long-term Yankee hasn’t been paying much attention is or using wishful thinking…
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Tue, 14 May 2013 18:21:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=435211#comment-493364Ha ha, hard to argue with your logic….can you toss Shane Spencer in that lot as well? And Ramiro Mendoza too?
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